The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bored with the usual, Jack Skellington accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life, he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role.
20 January 1954, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
4 March 1954, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3 October 1959, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
15 April 1952, Bessemer, Alabama, USA
24 July 1942, Beckley, West Virginia, USA
27 August 1952, Peekskill, New York, USA
October 26, 2016
Burton gives the audience his kind of children's film, and it's absolutely stellar.
December 03, 2013
Pure enchantment, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas creates a unique and wondrous world. This awesome movie is in a class by itself for its use of stop-action animation.
December 03, 2013
Burton and his collaborators present a movie musical that's like nothing you've ever seen.
December 03, 2013
Disney's sophisticated stop-motion animation (an advanced version of techniques used to create Gumby) creates a truly breathtaking visual landscape.
December 03, 2013
Burton, the man who gave us Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, is incapable of a conventional idea. His take on the holiday fairy tale is delightfully off the wall.
December 03, 2013
This full-length animated movie was shot in stop motion, with all the febrile, twittery fascination that the medium exerts; it has a magic-toy shop feeling, with unexpected objects stuttering into life.
December 03, 2013
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas has a grotesque charm, a pie-eyed magic.
December 03, 2013
Visually a macabre knockout, this 75-minute fantasy boasts some of the wittiest, most vigorous stop-motion animation effects in the history of the process.
December 21, 2013
A well-realized and weirdly amusing animated treat.
December 03, 2013
Animation is a wonderful medium, but it's almost too compatible with Burton's uninhibited approach. When literally anything goes, even the most original idea can get lost in the creative shuffle.
December 03, 2013
Part avant-garde art film, part amusing but morbid fairy tale, it is a delightfully ghoulish holiday musical that displays more inventiveness in its brief 75 minutes than some studios can manage in an entire year.
December 03, 2013
The Nightmare Before Christmas cleverly refashions its yuletide characters into Edward Gorey refugees.
